Product Description

Borderlands sends up to four co-op players to the harsh frontier planet Pandora in search of a mysterious Alien Vault. Featuring unique first-person role-playing shooter gameplay, you'll customise your character as you explore and battle enemies in frantic first-person shooter combat.

And what would a role-playing shooter be without loot? Borderlands groundbreaking content generation system creates a near endless variety of weapons and items to customise your character! Players can join and leave other players' games at any time, or choose to face the challenges of Borderlands alone. All these features combine with a deep, rich fiction and a bold art style to create a breathtaking experience that challenges the conventions of modern shooters...

• Co-Op Design: Borderlands is built from the ground up to be an exciting, intuitive co-operative experience for up to four players simultaneously that rewards players who work together and invest in co-op skills. Split-screen is also supported.
• FPS Gameplay: In this role-playing shooter, choose one of four distinct characters, each with their own individual skill sets. As your character grows throughout this fast-paced FPS, you choose and customise your abilities to suit your style of play!
• Art Style: The distinctive art style combines traditional rendering techniques with hand-drawn textures to paint a bold and eye-catching spin on the FPS genre.
• Vehicular Combat: Jump behind the wheel and engage in high-speed vehicle-to-vehicle combat, complete with spectacular explosions and road-killed Skags!
• Frontier Planet: Search the wasteland planet of Pandora for the legendary Alien Vault. Fight your way through bandits, discover nine native (and aggressive) creatures, and help the few settlers on the planet in your search for a Vault rumoured to contain a great prize - if it even exists!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: 2K Games
• Released on: 2009-10-30
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Borderlands sends up to four co-op players to the harsh frontier planet Pandora in search of a mysterious Alien Vault. Featuring unique First Person Role-playing Shooter gameplay, you'll customise your character as you explore and battle enemies in frantic First Person Shooter combat.

And what would a Role-playing Shooter be without loot? Borderlands' groundbreaking content generation system creates a near endless variety of weapons and items to customise your character! Players can join and leave other players' games at any time, or choose to face the challenges of Borderlands alone. All these features combine with a deep, rich fiction and a bold art style to create a breathtaking experience that challenges the conventions of modern shooters...

CO-OP DESIGN

Borderlands is built from the ground up to be an exciting, intuitive co-operative experience for up to four players simultaneously that rewards players who work together and invest in co-op skills. Split screen is also supported.

FPS GAMEPLAY

In this Role-playing Shooter, choose one of four distinct characters, each with their own individual skill sets. As your character grows throughout this fast-paced FPS, you choose and customise your abilities to suit your style of play!

ART STYLE

The distinctive art style combines traditional rendering techniques with hand-drawn textures to paint a bold and eye-catching spin on the FPS genre.

Jump behind the wheel and engage in high-speed vehicle-to-vehicle combat, complete with spectacular explosions and road-killed Skags!

FRONTIER PLANET

Search the wasteland planet of Pandora for the legendary Alien Vault. Fight your way through bandits, discover nine native (and aggressive) creatures, and help the few settlers on the planet in your search for a Vault rumoured to contain a great prize - if it even exists!

Customer Reviews

Good fun
Borderlands installed first time on Windows 7 x64 and I've not had a single problem with it. I see Borderlands as a hybrid of Hellgate:London, Diablo2, Fallout 3 with a dash of FarCry2. Trying to compare this game directly with others is misleading.

It's got its quirks don't get me wrong. The user interface is console friendly but as we use a mouse it's a bit of fudge. Maybe a future patch will update it. Don't let that put you off though. The graphics are original and you don't need a killer machine to play it maximum settings. The character development is basic but simple enough for those not used to the RPG genre to get involved. Gameplay wise its a blast with plenty of missions and items to develop you character.

If you like your stats and like a lot of shooting then this is a good distraction. It could have been a lot better but it is providing plenty of shooting fun. I'm giving this a 4star as it is a very good game that has its flaws.

Good game, horrible multiplayer implementation
I think we are now seeing a trend where game developers are giving pc gamers the middle finger. Anyone who has played this game will tell you that it is a console game that was ported to the pc. And even forgiving that fact, this game in particular goes all out to make you hate the game when you try to play online. How? Let me explain...

Its actually not that hard, if you ever played Diablo 2 on battlenet you will recall how easy it was to create games and more importantly lock them or implement a level blocking system. Borderlands does not give you either options. You get online to see a few games being hosted. You join the first one you click on and join the game only to discover 2 high level players plugging away at baddies beyond your skill level. Even if you create a game, you can't control who comes in or not and you CAN NOT KICK PLAYERS. So if a lvl 47 player jumps in you can't kick him, but note that if that kind of player joins the game, the baddies also get harder. This ruins the experience of you, the new player because you have higher level players one shotting every bad guy you see.

I also blame the separate release dates for this. Considering there is no dedicated server support and player matchups are peer 2 peer oriented, you WILL have more high level players who have few games to play but join yours instead and you cant make them leave. Again this has totally ruined my experience of the game. I bought it to play with players online but jumped on to discover this nightmare.

In all, Borderlands itself is a very good game. But the developers have utterly failed in its multiplayer implementation. It really is like they made the game for the console, thought about the pc version and said, forget them, just give them a p2p model and let them get on with it. This is because the pc multiplayer version now plays like the console multiplayer version, but these are two very different platforms. If they did not want to make a pc version I cannot for the life of me imagine why they bothered.

So there you go, buy Borderlands if you have really close friends and can play in a LAN setting, online play mode is not a nice; unless of course you reckon you just want single player mode. Which reminds me, you better learn how to carry out port implementation because by default the game wont allow specific friends to join your game online.

Very good game, bad multiplayer.

Borderlands PC
To be honnest, this game is much more fun when played with friends. Though the travelling part is kinda boring sometimes, it's fun to stop to kill enemies (loot!!!!).
You can plan, your attack or ... just run shooting everywhere...
The planet you're on reminds me of Fallout 3. Whithout the nuclear disaster part, but still, it's a good post apo background.